Milker
Well-Known Member
This been up yet? quality not wonderful but a little treasure in its own way despite the David Kitt over-indulgences
-
Welcome, guest!
Why not take a moment to register an account?
If you already have an account, remember to Log In!
Documentaries thread (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Gambra
- Start date
- Replies 174
- Views 26K
- Watchers 10
dunderhead
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2005
- Messages
- 3,420
My Kid could Paint That.
good doc. about four year old "prodigy" abstract artist from the states.
trailer,
download,
http://www.alivedownload.com/video/video/my_kid_could_paint_that_(2007)_dvdrip.html
good doc. about four year old "prodigy" abstract artist from the states.
trailer,
download,
http://www.alivedownload.com/video/video/my_kid_could_paint_that_(2007)_dvdrip.html
pissypants
Well-Known Member
Watched Grizzly Man last night on More 4.
It's an amazing story, but was expecting more from the doc istelf....
It's an amazing story, but was expecting more from the doc istelf....
Milker
Well-Known Member
Kermit McDermott
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jul 15, 2007
- Messages
- 8,284
It's on BBC4 next saturday.
piratecore
New Member
world war 2 behind closed doors
the nazis a warning from history
auschwitz : the nazis and the final solution
these are all brilliant 6 part series by laurence rees, auschwits : the nazis and the final solution is particularly harrowing but well worth watching just be warned that you may lose any little piece of faith you still had in humanity as it exposes the lack of effort on the part of the allies to alleviate the situation for the jews of europe and the deplorable actions of the ss, the regular german army and the citizens of germany in great detail with many unbeleivable interviews with aging war criminals and victims. .
the nazis a warning from history
auschwitz : the nazis and the final solution
these are all brilliant 6 part series by laurence rees, auschwits : the nazis and the final solution is particularly harrowing but well worth watching just be warned that you may lose any little piece of faith you still had in humanity as it exposes the lack of effort on the part of the allies to alleviate the situation for the jews of europe and the deplorable actions of the ss, the regular german army and the citizens of germany in great detail with many unbeleivable interviews with aging war criminals and victims. .
F. Fred Palakon
Active Member
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2001
- Messages
- 898
Sorry if this was already posted. Documentary about street kids in Seattle in the 1980s. Bleak.
pissypants
Well-Known Member
Nice one that was great.
From Wikipedia:
Tiny
When Streetwise was nominated for a 1984 Academy Award for documentary,[1] Tiny attended the Oscar ceremony with Bell and Mark. Despite Tiny's celebrity, however, her life did not radically change tack. Mark has returned to Seattle to photograph Tiny many times since 1983, and photographs of Tiny have appeared in Mark's later books, which reveal that in the years after the Streetwise projects, Tiny continued her prostitution, became a drug addict, became obese, and gave birth to nine children fathered by several different men. In the mid-2000s, however, Mark and Bell's 23-minute film, Erin, revealed that Tiny had cleaned up and settled down with a husband and her minor children.
------------
What became of the kids
According to the book Streetwise, Dewayne Pomeroy hanged himself in July 1984, the day before his 17th birthday. Some of the street kids held a balloon release and planted a tree in Freeway Park in his memory. Lou Ellen "Lulu" Couch was stabbed by a man at an arcade on 1st and Pike Street during a fight in December 1985. Her last words were, "Tell Martin and Mary Ellen Lulu died". Approximately 319 people attended her funeral. Two floor plaques at the Pike Place Market bear the names of Dewayne and Lulu. Roberta Joseph Hayes fell victim to Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer.
Tiny
When Streetwise was nominated for a 1984 Academy Award for documentary,[1] Tiny attended the Oscar ceremony with Bell and Mark. Despite Tiny's celebrity, however, her life did not radically change tack. Mark has returned to Seattle to photograph Tiny many times since 1983, and photographs of Tiny have appeared in Mark's later books, which reveal that in the years after the Streetwise projects, Tiny continued her prostitution, became a drug addict, became obese, and gave birth to nine children fathered by several different men. In the mid-2000s, however, Mark and Bell's 23-minute film, Erin, revealed that Tiny had cleaned up and settled down with a husband and her minor children.
------------
What became of the kids
According to the book Streetwise, Dewayne Pomeroy hanged himself in July 1984, the day before his 17th birthday. Some of the street kids held a balloon release and planted a tree in Freeway Park in his memory. Lou Ellen "Lulu" Couch was stabbed by a man at an arcade on 1st and Pike Street during a fight in December 1985. Her last words were, "Tell Martin and Mary Ellen Lulu died". Approximately 319 people attended her funeral. Two floor plaques at the Pike Place Market bear the names of Dewayne and Lulu. Roberta Joseph Hayes fell victim to Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer.
LUKAS
Member
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v5jBaU_A-c"]YouTube - Google Me[/ame]
'Google Me'
A documentary about a guy, Jim Killeen, who Googled himself and then went all over the world meeting others with his name.
'Google Me'
A documentary about a guy, Jim Killeen, who Googled himself and then went all over the world meeting others with his name.
i'm sure dave gorman will be impressed
maims bond
Well-Known Member
I just ordered this for £30:
http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/The_World_At_War_Box_Set_Eleven_Discs__5914512
Cannot wait.
http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/The_World_At_War_Box_Set_Eleven_Discs__5914512
Cannot wait.
outoftheblue
Member
This was just on the telly here. It's fucking incredible, isn't it? One of the best pieces of filmmaking I've seen.
Wheels
Well-Known Member
Did anyone see 'Prisoners of the Past' last night on RTE2? A Danish made documentary looking at the lives of Aboriginal, Native American and Inuit people. It was a shockingly biased piece of assimilationist propaganda, and featured Bill O'Reilly's conspiracy chum David Yeaghley as well as Australian right wing historical fabricator Keith Windschuttle. It was so one sided, condescending and hateful that I have a good mind to complain to RTE for showing it.
sweetoblivion
Well-Known Member
Crikey. What did they say in it about those people?
Wheels
Well-Known Member
Essentially that these peoples traditions are obsolete and that they have been fooled by their leaders into thinking that they need to keep old traditions, languages and ceremonies instead of assimilating. That angle was particularly agressively put across when relating to native americans. It featured a very convenient rich and poor dynamic concerning a disenfranchised family who lived in a mobile home, whilst the evil gambling empire owners exploited their own people to live the American dream. It offered no other view point except that their traditions were wrong either way. Australian aboriginals were horribly conveyed as stubborn and ignorant, with their only modern tradition being getting drunk.
I know that the aboriginal community, as well as others featured have a lot of problems, but the whole piece made out that it's their own fault for not getting with the times. Windschuttle put himself across as being a champion of the truth instead of the self serving bigot that he is. His most disgusting quote went along the lines of 'these people's traditions belong in a museum, and you can't live in a museum.'
Wheels
Well-Known Member
This guy's letter to the director's sums up the whole thing pretty well.
Dear Mr. Heilbruth and Mr. Persson,
I am Dr. Al Carroll. I am a history professor for the Alamo Community College District in San Antonio, Texas, in the United States. I have written books and articles on American Indian history and am American Indian myself. My ancestry is Mescalero Apache, as well as Mexican and Irish.
This letter to you both will be posted online and sent to as many media sources as possible, in both the United States and Scandinavia. I want everyone to know just what a travesty the two of you have foisted upon the public by making and broadcasting your racist film, doing enormous damage to indigenous peoples worldwide by your promotion of outright cultural genocide.
I have just seen your documentary "Prisoners of the Past" online. As a historian, I have never seen such a poorly done work filled with one falsehood and distortion after another. It is as appalling to watch your film as it is to see a Nazi rant about Jews. Both are equally filled with lies.
There are so many falsehoods that it is hard to know where to begin. But to start with, the biggest error in your film is this:
YOU USED THREE WHITE SUPREMACISTS AS SOURCES.
David Yeagley, Barbara Lindsay, and Keith Winschuttle ARE WHITE SUPREMACISTS and on the extreme Far Right of the political spectrum.
Two of them, Yeagley and Lindsay, are open members of white supremacist groups.
What you did is as insane as using Nazis or the Nation of Islam as a source on Jews.
I have to ask: Did you KNOWINGLY use white supremacists as your sources?
Are you white supremacists yourselves?
Or did you just do such a poor job of research that you did not know?
If you did not know, then I urge you in the strongest possible terms to apologize for your mistakes, withdraw the film, and hopefully reshoot it with the voices of actual Native people instead.
Let me provide with the proof you SHOULD have known about long BEFORE you started filming, that Yeagley, Lindsay, and Windschuttle are openly racist, white supremacist extremists.
Barbara Lindsay:
Barbara Lindsay is a leading member of the white supremacist group One Nation. She claims to have a small amount of Cherokee Indian ancestry, but is not a member of any tribe. She was expelled from a Cherokee heritage club.
David Yeagley is NOT American Indian at all. He is an imposter who POSES as Indian. His stepmother was Comanche Indian, and based on that he was mistakenly enrolled.
Yeagley is a member of or tied to the following white supremacist and extremist groups:
John Birch Society (anti Semitic conspiracy theorists)
National Alliance (white supremacist)
Stormfront (Neo Nazi skinheads)
Gene Expression (eugenicists)
VDARE (self described as "white nationalists")
Windschuttle is not a conservative, he's outright racist, and often makes up "facts" to support his racism. His take on history so bizarre and filled with lies he can't find an academic publisher and has to go to vanity publishers.
But he and his supporters seem to imagine that because he's clearly seen as racist is somehow proof that academia has been taken over by leftists. In fact most historians tend to be quite conservative, certainly in the sense of cautious.
See for yourselves what far better historians have to say about an open racist like Windschuttle.
http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/thinkingculture/2006/08/australias_racist_cultures.html
"Further, you can find a very thorough analysis of the various ways in which racism manifests in Keith Windschuttle's self-published (as opposed to 'serious academic') research in 'Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History', Black Inc. Agenda, 2003. The book contains contributions from scholars across the Australian academy."
Windschuttle is pretty racist towards Asians too, imagining them "taking over," that whites are "endangered", and that being racist is central to white Australian identity.
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol5no1_2006/perera_raceterror.htm
"22. Anglo-Australian men as an endangered species in the law are only a part of Fraser's apocalyptic vision of the future. In an article, "Rethinking the White Australia Policy" (a review of Keith Windschuttle's book, The White Australia Policy), Fraser asserts:
Within two or three decades, it is not unreasonable to expect that Australia will have a heavily Asian managerial-professional, ruling class that will not hesitate to promote the interests of co-ethnics at the expense of white Australians. (Fraser 2005b).
23. Fraser supports this statement with the fantastic notion, as recapped by Windschuttle, that "Europeans ... evolved in a cold climate to support non-kinship forms of reciprocity and thus to welcome strangers," while "Chinese and Japanese businessmen operate within mafia-like, extended family clans that are bound by shared genes to support one another" (Windschuttle 2005)....
Despite their internal differences, however, Windschuttle, Fraser and Duffy represent an institutionalised and politically powerful configuration of contemporary Australian nationalism that exists on a continuum with assertions of race pride that are usually disowned as extremist....
30. The most distinctive feature of the formation represented by Duffy and Windschuttle is its foregrounding of Anglo-Australian achievement and white racial pride. Its platform is premised on a whitewashing (Manne 2003) of Australian history, especially of the violence directed towards Indigenous people and their ongoing resistances."
Your film's premises blame the victims throughout, and show a lack of understanding of the most basic facts.
I can only hope you made these mistakes because you did not realize that you were being told lies by white supremacists.
Again, I urge you to admit your mistakes, apologize, and withdraw this awful, racist film you have made.
Thank you,
Dr. Al Carroll
Alamo Community College District
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Dear Mr. Heilbruth and Mr. Persson,
I am Dr. Al Carroll. I am a history professor for the Alamo Community College District in San Antonio, Texas, in the United States. I have written books and articles on American Indian history and am American Indian myself. My ancestry is Mescalero Apache, as well as Mexican and Irish.
This letter to you both will be posted online and sent to as many media sources as possible, in both the United States and Scandinavia. I want everyone to know just what a travesty the two of you have foisted upon the public by making and broadcasting your racist film, doing enormous damage to indigenous peoples worldwide by your promotion of outright cultural genocide.
I have just seen your documentary "Prisoners of the Past" online. As a historian, I have never seen such a poorly done work filled with one falsehood and distortion after another. It is as appalling to watch your film as it is to see a Nazi rant about Jews. Both are equally filled with lies.
There are so many falsehoods that it is hard to know where to begin. But to start with, the biggest error in your film is this:
YOU USED THREE WHITE SUPREMACISTS AS SOURCES.
David Yeagley, Barbara Lindsay, and Keith Winschuttle ARE WHITE SUPREMACISTS and on the extreme Far Right of the political spectrum.
Two of them, Yeagley and Lindsay, are open members of white supremacist groups.
What you did is as insane as using Nazis or the Nation of Islam as a source on Jews.
I have to ask: Did you KNOWINGLY use white supremacists as your sources?
Are you white supremacists yourselves?
Or did you just do such a poor job of research that you did not know?
If you did not know, then I urge you in the strongest possible terms to apologize for your mistakes, withdraw the film, and hopefully reshoot it with the voices of actual Native people instead.
Let me provide with the proof you SHOULD have known about long BEFORE you started filming, that Yeagley, Lindsay, and Windschuttle are openly racist, white supremacist extremists.
Barbara Lindsay:
Barbara Lindsay is a leading member of the white supremacist group One Nation. She claims to have a small amount of Cherokee Indian ancestry, but is not a member of any tribe. She was expelled from a Cherokee heritage club.
David Yeagley is NOT American Indian at all. He is an imposter who POSES as Indian. His stepmother was Comanche Indian, and based on that he was mistakenly enrolled.
Yeagley is a member of or tied to the following white supremacist and extremist groups:
John Birch Society (anti Semitic conspiracy theorists)
National Alliance (white supremacist)
Stormfront (Neo Nazi skinheads)
Gene Expression (eugenicists)
VDARE (self described as "white nationalists")
Windschuttle is not a conservative, he's outright racist, and often makes up "facts" to support his racism. His take on history so bizarre and filled with lies he can't find an academic publisher and has to go to vanity publishers.
But he and his supporters seem to imagine that because he's clearly seen as racist is somehow proof that academia has been taken over by leftists. In fact most historians tend to be quite conservative, certainly in the sense of cautious.
See for yourselves what far better historians have to say about an open racist like Windschuttle.
http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/thinkingculture/2006/08/australias_racist_cultures.html
"Further, you can find a very thorough analysis of the various ways in which racism manifests in Keith Windschuttle's self-published (as opposed to 'serious academic') research in 'Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History', Black Inc. Agenda, 2003. The book contains contributions from scholars across the Australian academy."
Windschuttle is pretty racist towards Asians too, imagining them "taking over," that whites are "endangered", and that being racist is central to white Australian identity.
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol5no1_2006/perera_raceterror.htm
"22. Anglo-Australian men as an endangered species in the law are only a part of Fraser's apocalyptic vision of the future. In an article, "Rethinking the White Australia Policy" (a review of Keith Windschuttle's book, The White Australia Policy), Fraser asserts:
Within two or three decades, it is not unreasonable to expect that Australia will have a heavily Asian managerial-professional, ruling class that will not hesitate to promote the interests of co-ethnics at the expense of white Australians. (Fraser 2005b).
23. Fraser supports this statement with the fantastic notion, as recapped by Windschuttle, that "Europeans ... evolved in a cold climate to support non-kinship forms of reciprocity and thus to welcome strangers," while "Chinese and Japanese businessmen operate within mafia-like, extended family clans that are bound by shared genes to support one another" (Windschuttle 2005)....
Despite their internal differences, however, Windschuttle, Fraser and Duffy represent an institutionalised and politically powerful configuration of contemporary Australian nationalism that exists on a continuum with assertions of race pride that are usually disowned as extremist....
30. The most distinctive feature of the formation represented by Duffy and Windschuttle is its foregrounding of Anglo-Australian achievement and white racial pride. Its platform is premised on a whitewashing (Manne 2003) of Australian history, especially of the violence directed towards Indigenous people and their ongoing resistances."
Your film's premises blame the victims throughout, and show a lack of understanding of the most basic facts.
I can only hope you made these mistakes because you did not realize that you were being told lies by white supremacists.
Again, I urge you to admit your mistakes, apologize, and withdraw this awful, racist film you have made.
Thank you,
Dr. Al Carroll
Alamo Community College District
San Antonio, Texas, USA
LUKAS
Member
'Upgrade Me'
Poet and gadget lover Simon Armitage explores people's obsession with upgrading to the latest technological gadgetry.
Upgrade culture drives millions to purchase the latest phones, flatscreen TVs, laptops and MP3 players. But is it design, functionality, fashion or friends that makes people covet the upgrade, and how far does the choice of gadgets define identity? Simon journeys across Britain and to South Korea in search of answers.
http://www.wisevid.com/view_video.php?viewkey=l4lgah5vilruc2104040#
Poet and gadget lover Simon Armitage explores people's obsession with upgrading to the latest technological gadgetry.
Upgrade culture drives millions to purchase the latest phones, flatscreen TVs, laptops and MP3 players. But is it design, functionality, fashion or friends that makes people covet the upgrade, and how far does the choice of gadgets define identity? Simon journeys across Britain and to South Korea in search of answers.
http://www.wisevid.com/view_video.php?viewkey=l4lgah5vilruc2104040#
jonah
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2009
- Messages
- 6,650
I love Simon Armitage! Holy Hell!
I dunno if this was posted before but I just found it again. Grim stuff.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...XVSpTxEI7A-AaF1LygCg&q=sex+in+a+cold+climate#
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...XVSpTxEI7A-AaF1LygCg&q=sex+in+a+cold+climate#
Users who are viewing this thread
Activity
So far there's no one here
21 Day Calendar
Similar threads
Support thumped.com
Support thumped.com and upgrade your account
Upgrade your account now to disable all ads...
Upgrade now